Up until recently I understood the idiom we express as clearing the air to mean that the two parties must sit down together and discuss differences and reach some resolution. It seemed that anything short of resolution was burying their heads in the sand.
Ignoring an issue meant, in my thinking, that it would be like a festering wound waiting to become a fully inflamed infection. In the end that was ALWAYS worse then dealing with the initial issue.
Sometimes, when all else is floating above water, it is simply helpful to air the mutual grievances in a mode of active listening. Sometimes all we need is not a solution but for someone to walk in our shoes, someone to see life through our eyes.
This recent exercise was enlightening. When exercised in all caution and grace it can be fully rewarding. Of course, when not utilizing all the wisdom that can only come from The Lord above this can be a recipe for a raging fire.
Some things aren’t issues of resolution. Some issues relate more to an understanding partner.
